Claude Monet Water Lilies Analysis

The water lilies was an series of approximately 250 oil paintings Claude Monet (1840-1926) produced late in his life while he was 74 till his death at 86 in his garden at Giverny, west of Paris along the Seine. Claude Monet was a impressionist. To illustrate, Louis Leroy, writing for the satirical journal Charivari, sized upon the tile of Monet’s painting IMPRESSION, SUNRISE while Monet exhibited his painting in Paris in 1874 (Marilyn 495). And this was the first time the term impression was used. The impressionists were not focusing to recapture the actual appearance of physical things, but they were focusing to capture the fleeting light effects and atmosphere (495). Monet was a pure and extreme impressionist, and he spent his whole life trying to express the instantaneous impression of a fleeting moment in nature to his paintings and to capture the beauty of the optimal world. In his late life while he had a vision problem and unhealthy condition in the body, he spent most of his time and energy in his garden to study water lilies. The passion Monet putted into the water lilies series of paintings verified the tenacious vitality of Monet and his love of art. The rest of the evaluation will be more based on the Water Lilies
For example, the Water Lilies (1914—1917) in the Toledo Museum of Art is extremely different from the one discussed above. There’re lots of grass on the painting and the audiences can hardly see the water in the composition. The water lilies in the Toledo Museum of Art reflects the catastrophic Monet viewed the world while he was composing it. Moreover, expecting the water lilies in the Legion of Honor museum was composed when World War 1 was about to end will be an educated guess because the audiences can feel faiths from Monet by looking at the